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Drop-Handle.

No. 224,702. Patented Feb. 17, 1880. S

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WITNESSES jN'VENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT j OFFICE.

JOSEPH KINTZ, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDPATRICK J. CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

DROP-HANDLE.

SPECIFIGAT ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,702, datedFebruary 17, 1880.

Application filed October 11,1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KINTZ, of West Meriden, Connecticut, haveinvented an Improvement in Drop Handles, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of the invention is to prevent the knob from swinging in anybut a vertical plane to and from the drawer and the lapped port-ion fromstraightening out.

Figure 1 of the drawings is an elevation, the washers being in section.Fig. 2 is an end elevation, showing the knob in section.

a represents the knob, having the cap f shrunk thereon b C, thescrew-bolts, that are connected by eyes; and cl 6, the washers.

The screw-bolt C has a straight eye, and is equal in diameter throughoutits length, while the eye of the screw-bolt b is bent to the form of atriangle, in order to produce a straight limb transverse to the straighteye of screw- I claim as new is- In a drop handle, the combination ofthe screw-bolt C, having a straight eye, the washers dc, the screw-boltI), having a triangular eye, and the knob a, as shown and described.

JOSEPH KINTZ.

Witnesses:

WILBUR F. DAVIS, C AELEs W. MANN.

